Union and Confederate Bushwhackers
The term was widely used during the conflict, though it came to be particularly associated with the Confederate guerrillas of Missouri, where such warfare was most intense. Guerrilla warfare also wracked Kentucky, Tennessee, northern Georgia, Arkansas, and northern Virginia, among other locations. Two bands operated in California in 1864.
Pro-Union guerilla fighters in Kansas were called "jayhawkers". They used tactics similar to the Confederate bushwhackers. A typical jayhawker action was a cross-border raid into Missouri.
In some areas, particularly the Appalachian regions of Tennessee and North Carolina, the term bushwhackers was used for Union partisans who attacked Confederate forces.
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